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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Quasardb vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS vs. TimescaleDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAnalytics Platform for Big DataPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitegeospock.comquasar.aiwww.splunk.comsql.js.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunksql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperGeoSpockquasardbSplunk Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTimescale
Initial release2009200320122017
Current release2.0, September 20193.14.1, January 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP APIHTTP RESTJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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